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		bennettfeely on March 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linting HTML using CSS Is there a reason the * selector is needed on the first example or am I missing something? I believe [style] { } would get the same result.

tomatsu on March 12, 2017 [–]

The '*' there has no effect whatsoever. It doesn't even change the specificity.

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